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Art is about profundity. It's about connecting to everything that it means to be alive, but you have to act.

I've loved art for more than 30 years.

Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'.

Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

Unless the work of art has wholly exhausted its maker's attention, it fails. This is why works of great significance are demanding and why they are infinitely rewarding.

I feel like I have at least begun to make a contribution, but my most significant concern has to do with whether my actual art will be preserved for future generations or be erased.

I think it would be very difficult to maintain one kind of art or whatever for your whole life. I think it's unrealistic.

The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal.